Bumble buys full-page ad to call out Match Group’s ‘scare tactics’

Consider yourselves blocked. That’s the message dating app Bumble has for its competitor Match Group after the latter filed a patent infringement lawsuit on Friday. 

Bumble, founded and led by former Tinder executive Whitney Wolfe Herd, took out a full page ad in Tuesday’s edition of the New York Times to speak openly about its frustrations with Match Group, a company that has repeatedly tried to buy and copy Bumble. 

“We are going to tell our full side of the story in court, and we feel confident in that,” Herd told Mashable in an interview on Tuesday.  Read more…

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